It’s raining cats and dogs…

And I’m busy at home making cupcakes…or at least trying to. :P

Still not quite happy with the result. I’ll have to try a different recipe for the cake, this one has way too much butter for my taste.

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The macaron adventure

Since I took my macaron class at The Atelier des Chefs, I tried twice to make some of these delicious little patisseries at home. First I tried to recreate one of the recipes I already knew from that class, the ginger and lime macarons. I was quite pleased with the result even if I could see so many flaws in them…

 
When [...]

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Rose Bakery’s Rugelach

This Valentine, my other half gave me several cooking books and one of them was the wonderful Breakfeast, Luch, Tea: Rose Bakery by Rose Carrarini. The author is the owner of Rose Bakery in Paris, a restaurant where you can try all the delicious recipes.
This time I decided to go for their rugelach, mainly because I saw [...]

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My first macarons

Today, I finally took my macaron cooking class at the Atelier des Chefs. Two hours non-stop and lots of information. I’m exhausted!:P Fortunately, there was a yummy reward at the end.;-)
I took some photos at the Atelier but we were constantly busy so there’s only a few of them (*cough cough* I was the only one taking photos, well, me [...]

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Another surprise…

Yesterday, I truly had a very exciting day. First the m-bag full of goodies and then in the evening I received an early Christmas present. My dear half, knowing my love for cooking and learning new things, decided to offer me some cooking lessons at The Atelier des Chefs.  I was flabbergasted! I have a choice within [...]

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Cheese & Ham Muffins

Here’s the original recipe at Week 2, but I decided to make some small changes.
Ingredients (makes 6 medium size):
50gr flour
50gr Maizena
1/2 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
2 eggs
2 tablespoons of 0% cheese cream
2 tablespoons of olive oil
100gr small cubes (or slices) chicken ham
60gr of shredded Emmental
handful of parmesan
salt
pepper
Pre-heat the oven at 180°C
Grease your muffin pan, [...]

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French Chocolate Pie

After pestering  my boyfriend for years about typical French food (he is the French, not me ! :P ), he finally gave me today a wonderful book : Les 118 Recettes Françaises : Les Classiques by Trish Deseine. I was very curious about some of these recipes, so I tried something simple like the French Chocolate Pie. Since [...]

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I’m a lazy blogger!

It’s been more than a month since last time I posted something here. I’m so lazy! I’ve been busy cooking, trying new recipes, reading and spend most of my free time in my other blog: Light’s Camera…History were I have so much fun with my two partners in crime: A. and A.. Right now, I’m [...]

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Cooking, cooking and cooking…

I’m ill again and bored! Yesterday, I started to search all kind of recipes trying to decide what to bake and since I recently bought a silicone muffin pan I decided to try some muffins. Since I couldn’t decide which ones, I made make some with lemon, chocolate and coconut/gooseberries. At the end, I had [...]

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Trying a new recipe…

Today I’m a little bored (I’m sick and stucked at home) so I decided to cook. I’ve heared so much about Les Cakes de Sophie (a very famous cookbook here in France) that I decided to try one. Ok, be merciful with me because I had to translate the recipe from the french and frankly, [...]

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